OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecosystem Services is 19. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	151
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	144
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	110
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	94
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	92
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan	80
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	76
Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas	70
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine	68
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	68
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	64
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards	62
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces	59
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	59
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	56
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	55
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	53
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil	51
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	51
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation	51
Not just an engineering problem: The role of knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services for adaptive management of coastal erosion	51
Traditional and modern ecosystem services thinking in nomadic Mongolia: Framing differences, common concerns, and ways forward	49
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany	48
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	41
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	41

A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	41
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	39
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	38
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	38
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	38
Participatory ecosystem service assessment to enhance environmental decision-making in a border city of South Korea	38
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	38
Modelling the net environmental and economic impacts of urban nature-based solutions by combining ecosystem services, system dynamics and life cycle thinking: An application to urban forests	38
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China	37
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	37
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	36
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	36
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review	36
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality	35
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems	35
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast	34
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	34
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management	33
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries	33
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants	33
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model	33
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)	33
Rapid ecosystem service assessment of a protected wetland in Myanmar, and implications for policy development and management	33
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance	32
Participatory GIS mapping highlights indirect use and existence values of coastal resources and marine conservation areas	32
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia	31
Finance for nature: Bridging the blue-green investment gap to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	30
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets	30
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam	30
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media	30
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design	29
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China	29
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?	29
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems	29
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review	29
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees	28
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees	28
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia	28
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador	27
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs	27
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	27
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms	27
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia	27
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings	26
Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure – Retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo	26
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin	26
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats	26
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises	26
Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision	26
Comparison of empirical and process-based modelling to quantify soil-supported ecosystem services on the Saclay plateau (France)	26

Wildfires impact on ecosystem service delivery in fire-prone maritime pine-dominated forests	26
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning	25
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios	25
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea	25
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs	25
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica	25
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size	24
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making	24
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees	24
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services	23
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems	23
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services	23
What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?	23
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks	23
Integrating Bayesian Networks into ecosystem services assessment to support water management at the river basin scale	23
Local responses to design changes in payments for ecosystem services in Chiapas, Mexico	23
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland	22
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran	22
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management	22
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services	22
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?	22
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services	22
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review	22
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan	21
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review	21
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration	21
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland	21
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?	20
Revealing driver-mediated indirect interactions between ecosystem services using Bayesian Belief Networks	20
Internalizing externalities through net ecosystem service analysis–A case study of greenhouse vegetable farms in Beijing	20
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services	20
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services	20
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation	20
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions	20
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches	20
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services	20
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya	19
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors	19
The value of doing nothing – How informal green spaces can provide comparable ecosystem services to cultivated urban parks	19
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services	19
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map	19
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA	19
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia	19
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area	19
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services	19